2012 Summer Conference Materials

Working with Your City Manager
Diane Wetherbee, City Attorney, and Bruce Glasscock, City Manager, Plano

Current Issues Involving Groundwater and Cities
Drew Miller, Kemp Smith, Austin

Current Issues Involving Surface Water and Cities
Emily Rogers, Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta, LLP, Austin

Rainwater Harvesting and Cities
Kristen Fancher, Lloyd Gosselink, Austin

The State Water Plan – What Cities Need to Know
Ty Embrey, Lloyd Gosselink, Austin

The Legal Framework for Municipal Fees
Leela Fireside, Assistant City Attorney, Austin

Recent Federal Cases of Interest to Cities
Randy Montgomery, D. Randall Montgomery and Associates, Dallas

Recent State Cases of Interest to Cities
Laura Mueller, Assistant General Counsel, Texas Municipal League

Enforcement of Economic Development Agreements
Thomas Gwosdz, City Attorney, Victoria

Ethics
Chuck Thompson, Executive Director, International Municipal Lawyers Association

Substandard Building Issues: City of Dallas v. Stewart and More
Janet Spugnardi, Messer, Campbell, & Brady, Frisco; and Jennifer Richie, Senior Assistant City
Attorney, Irving

I Do Declare! Or Why a Declaratory Judgment Action May Not Be in the Best Interest of the City
Loren Smith, Olson and Olson, L.L.P. Houston

Drafting a Peddler/Itinerant Merchant Ordinance
Slater Elza, Underwood Law Firm, Amarillo

Ethics
Jill Hoffman, Bojorquez Law Firm, PLLC, Austin

Employment Law Update
Elizabeth Provencio, Denton Navarro Rocha & Bernal, P.C., San Antonio

Eminent Domain After Senate Bill 18
Robert Brown, Brown and Hofmeister, Richardson

Public Information Act Update, Including the Status of Personal E-mails
Jennafer Tallant and George Hyde, Denton Navarro Rocha & Bernal, P.C., San Antonio